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Friday, November 22, 2013

John and Chris talk to a passive/agressive Air Force Academy representative

After John Aravosis, of Americablog, broke the story, earlier this week, about the Air Force's hiring of an ex-gay zealot to oversee the counseling program at the USAF Academy, questions were raised about how baked-in LGBT hostility at the Air Force Academy really is. To assuage these fears (or massage the perception of them) the Air Force set up a conference call, about which Aravosis blogged at some length. "ME" is he:

ME: But you just told us the cadets cannot answer
questions about what concerns were raised at a meeting, when you are
holding this press conference to convince us that no concerns were
raised. That’s a little odd.ACADEMY MEDIA REP: Okay, if you’re going to be
unprofessional, we can end the call for you and let the other reporters
get what they need, cuz we’re trying to help out a number of reporters
here sir, and you’re only one of them.BUZZFEED’S [CHRIS] GEIDNER: There are two of us asking
the same sort of questions. And the question wasn’t answered. I mean
[garbled] you’re saying that there were concerns raised, but then
indignantly saying we’re not going to get into their personal lives.
Make up your mind. Is the call about transparency or not?

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.